text: First Call for Contributions RO-MAN 2014 The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication 25th- 29th August 2014 Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Email: info.ieee.roman2014 at macs.hw.ac.uk Website: http://rehabilitationrobotics.net/ro-man14/ RO-MAN 2014 is the twenty-third installment of this well-known and exciting conference that invites submissions covering a range of topics in the domain of robot and human interactive communication. RO-MAN continues to be one of the key conferences for submitting innovative research on human-machine and human-robot interaction and communication. This year's conference highlights the current societal challenges in health and well-being by adopting the theme of Human-robot co-existence: Adaptive interfaces and systems for daily life, therapy, assistance and socially engaging interactions. The conference provides a platform for exchange between researchers and technology providers and will provide a chance for demonstrating research outcomes and prototypes as well as existing products. Hosted in the historical Scottish city of Edinburgh and overlapping with the well-known Edinburgh Festival season (1-25 August, 2014), the conference will provide a unique opportunity to meet and discuss with other participants. In addition to regular submissions, we invite proposals for workshops, tutorial and special sessions. Important Deadlines ------------------------------------------------ Workshop, Special Sessions & Tutorial proposals: Submission of proposals: 10/01/2014 Notification of acceptance: 17/01/2014 Workshop papers: Submission of workshop papers: 02/05/2014 Notification of acceptance: 28/05/2014 Submission of camera-ready papers: 10/06/2014 Regular Papers and Special Session papers: Submission of regular and special session papers: 16/02/2014 Notification of acceptance: 27/04/2014 Submission of camera-ready papers: 23/05/2014 Topics of Interest (but are not restricted to): * Innovative robot designs for HRI research. * User-centered design of social robots. * Novel interfaces and interaction modalities. * Long-term experience and longitudinal HRI studies. * Evaluation methods and new methodologies for HRI research. * Androids. * Degrees of autonomy and teleoperation. * Human factors and ergonomics in HRI research. * Virtual and augmented tele-presence environments. * Social, ethical and aesthetic issues in human-robot interaction research. * Robots in education, therapy and rehabilitation. * Medical and surgical applications of robots. * Robot companions and social robots in home environments. * Assistive robotics for supporting the elderly or people with special needs. * Applications of social robots in entertainment, service robotics, space travel and others. * Anthropomorphic robots and virtual humans. * Interaction with believable characters. * Non-verbal cues and expressiveness in interactions: gesture, posture, social spaces and facial expressions. * Interaction kinesics. * Monitoring of behaviour and internal states of human subjects. * Robotic etiquette. * Social intelligence for robot. * Social presence for robots and virtual humans. * Creating relationships with robots and humanoids. * Personalities for robotic or virtual characters. * Embodiment, empathy and intersubjectivity in interaction with robotic and virtual characters. * Intelligence, motivations and emotions in robots. * Curiosity, intentionality and initiative in interaction. * Linguistic communication and dialogue with robots and intelligent interfaces. * Multimodal interaction and conversational skills. * Cognitive and sensori-motor development in robots. * Cognitive skills and mental models for social robots. * Social learning and skill acquisition via teaching and imitation. * Programming by demonstration. * Cooperation and collaboration in human-robot teams. * Human-robot interaction and collaboration in manufacturing environments. * Motion planning and navigation in the vicinity of humans. * Machine learning and adaptation in human-robot interaction. * Multi-modal situation awareness and spatial cognition. * Computational architectures for human-robot interaction. * Detecting and understanding human activity. * Narrative and story-telling in interaction. Organising Committee General Chairs * Patricia A. Vargas (Heriot-Watt University, UK) * Ruth Aylett (Heriot-Watt University, UK) Honorary Chair * Kerstin Dautenhahn (University of Hertfordshire, UK) Programme Chair: * Farshid Amirabdollahian (University of Hertfordshire, UK) Special Program Chairs: * Adriana Tapus (Ensta, France) * Aris Alissandrakis (Linnaeus University, Sweden) * Fumihide Tanaka (University of Tokyo, Japan) * Selma Sabanovic (Indiana University, USA) * Rui Loureiro (Middlesex University, UK) * Yukie Nagai (Osaka University, Japan) Publication Chairs: * Asad Nazir (Heriot-Watt University, UK) * Hagen Lehmann (University of Hertfordshire, UK) * Subramanian Ramamoorthy (University of Edinburgh, UK) Publicity Chairs: * Kerstin Dautenhahn (University of Hertfordshire, UK) * Mike Goodrich (Brigham Young University, USA) * Renato Tinos (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) * Sonya S. 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|Innisfail, 2013 (photo by Judy Webster)
Natasha Lavell
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Please forward this request to family history societies, genealogists on social media, etc. The URL for this post is http://qld-genealogy.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/burials-at-geraldton-now-innisfail.html.
The photograph, which I took earlier this year, shows two of the Art Deco buildings for which Innisfail is renowned (the Bluebird Cafe and Robertson Brothers).

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text: Syberia II Walkthrough ====================== by Steve Metzler (May, 2004) Developer: Benoit Sokal Publisher: Microids If you haven't played the original Syberia, you should first use the 'Syberia Recap' button on the main menu. It will at least give you a clue as to what transpired in the previous game, though playing the first game is not essential to enjoying or comprehending this one... but it helps. The game begins as the train pulls into a station. Romansburg ---------- Head towards the front of the train and talk to Hans. He's going to Syberia no matter what, and it looks like you are too. As you may have learned from the original Syberia, this is an automaton train that needs to be wound up periodically. So the first order of business is to find a way to do that here. Exit the train onto the platform. You immediately bump into Colonel Emeliov, the... er... police presence here. Follow him into the station house, and go talk to him. You don't learn much. Then head back outside, and go south to where Oscar is camped out. Wind up the train by: turning the wheel to extend the winding device, then pulling the lever on the ground, then turning the wheel again to retract the device. But you aren't finished here yet. Not by a long shot. Talk to Oscar, and when you mention 'Train', you discover that you will need to load the train with some coal before you can depart... Go all the way to the north on the platform, and examine the gate there. You notice that it is locked. Then head back into the station house. Examine the broken candy machine on the counter where Emeliov was standing the first time you spoke with him. Take the Small Key from the drawer to the left of the broken candy machine. Talk to Emiliov about the 'Coal', and he says you can use the device in the middle of the platform to load your train with coal. Then mention 'Gate', and you hear that the gate is apparently always locked to keep the people below from coming up here. Hmm. Examine the three candy machines on the table near the entrance. Use the Small Key on the keyhole in the right-most one, and you come up with some Coins. Select the Coins from inventory, and a rather large selection will appear at the top of your screen. Use the fifth coin from the left (with a reindeer on it) on the left-most machine, and you get some Sugar Candy. Using the second coin from the left (50 something-or-other) on the middle machine gets you some Fish Candy. It doesn't appear as if you can get any candy from the right-most machine. Then head outside, and try using the lever in the middle of the platform to load the coal. Surprise, surprise. No free coal today. While you're there, talk to the young girl named Malka who is standing right underneath you. You promise to get down to her somehow. Go back to Emeliov, and mention 'Coal'. Looks like you're out of luck on that score. Then mention 'Key'. He lost it. But not to worry, that's actually good news! Go talk to Malka again (she's holding a balloon this time). Mention 'Key', and she will help you if you give her a "present". Mention 'Candy' next, and it's the Sugar Candy she wants. Use it on Malka, and she sends up the Gate Key by balloon. Open the locked gate at the top of the platform with it, then head down the stairs. 'Lower' Romansburg ------------------ Head southwest and speak to Malka on all topics. She mentions Cirkos, and the Bourgoff brothers, who Kate surmises may be able to help her with the coal machine. Go west from there. Take the red, Empty Can of petrol from the left-hand steel column. Aha, so that explains why our coal machine won't work! Head west, then northwest from where Malka is standing, then continue west along the wooden fence (even though the cursor does not light up, you can go there). You come to a door in the fence, with a small window set into it. Try to go in there. Kate rings the bell, and Ivan Bourgoff comes to the door. He's not very helpful, as expected. That's his idiot savant brother Igor who keeps repeating things in the background. After the conversation ends, keep heading west and you will see a Cirkos poster that you are allowed to examine. Use the rip in the top left corner of the poster to tear the poster off the wall, then head through the opening. Examine the box in the middle of the compound that contains an exotic captured animal (you will later discover the name of this animal). Use the latch on the box to release the animal, and Ivan goes after it, leaving Kate free to explore further. Head northwest, and take the Jerry Can can from the top of the barrel (Kate replaces it with the empty one she was carrying). Then go to the north and talk to Igor. Oops. Ivan returns shortly thereafter, and he is not a happy person. Kate exits... Go back to the coal machine, and use the Jerry Can on the generator. Then hit the red button to start it up. Go back upstairs and pull the lever to load the train with coal... but then Oscar runs up to inform you that Hans has disappeared. Head back downstairs and enter the inn across from where Malka is standing. Hans is staring at the automaton horses on the stage there, and then he goes into delirium and collapses. Kate brings Hans back to the train and puts him to bed. Talk to him, but he's just spewing out gibberish. Go back to the place where you got into the Bourgoff brother's compound, and you see that it has been boarded up. Continue west, and you see a monastery on the hill. But when you cross the bridge there and try to go up the hill, Kate turns back saying that she needs some warm clothes. So... go talk to Colonel Emeliov in the station house, and ask for 'Help'. He lowers a ladder that leads to the attic. Head up the ladder and take the Winter Clothes. Kate comments that she needs to find someplace private to change into them. That would be the bathroom on the train. Once Kate is decked out in her winter gear, head back downstairs and talk to Malka. It seems that the monks at the monastery may be able to help Hans. Then head into the inn and talk to Cirkos. Mention 'Malka', and then 'Shroud'. Go to Malka again, mention 'Monastery' then 'Help', and she will give you a Token. Head back towards the monastery, and use the Token on the machine by the bridge. Pull the lever to get a Shroud. Then go use it on Hans to obtain Hans' Shroud. Now cross the bridge and head up to the base of the monastery. Pull the chain at the bottom of the lift shaft, and you can see a monk way above shaking his head. Hmm. Take the path to the east, and you come upon a monk washing some robes. Talk to him at length, and twice during the conversation he pauses to listen to the call of the 'merula alba'. When the subject finallly comes around to 'Latin', Kate learns that the reason she can't get access to the monastery is that women are forbidden to enter. Hmph. Looks like we need to get hold of one of those robes then! So head back to the station house and talk to Emeliov yet again. Mention 'Help'. He gives you three birdcalls. Use the silver one on the monk, and he uses it to call his precious merula alba, then runs off. Take a Monk's Habit, and Kate goes behind a rock to put it on. Now when you pull the chain at the bottom of the lift shaft, the monk at the top sends down the lift. Monastery --------- Go to the central courtyard of the monastery, where the view changes to an overhead one. Then enter the chapel to the west. Walk towards the front of the chapel, and when you access the curtain there, the old patriarch comes out. At first, he appears to be very unhelpful. But finally the topic of 'Shroud' appears and when you tell him that you have brought Hans' Shroud along, he looks at it and then sends monks down to fetch Hans from the train... After the cut scene where Hans is carried up to the monastery, you wind up talking to the old patriarch the next morning. He reluctantly agrees to let you visit Hans. North and east to get there. Hans is still delirious, but he bids you to go find a monk named Alexei who knows Youkol medicine. During the conversation, you see the monk that was washing the robes listening outside the door. Go outside and confront him. He's mumbling away in pigeon latin again, but if you keep asking him about 'Brother Alexei' he finally hands you a Scroll and heads off. Examine your Documents inventory and you will see that you have also received a Stained-Glass Mammoth. Also, the Stained-Glass Mammoth is no longer obscuring the scroll so you can now read the text in full. It says "the key is in the light of the mammoth's eye". Hmm. Head back to the courtyard and pick up the Brush next to the bucket. Then go to the chapel and examine the painting on the wall to Kate's left. Use the Brush on the book in the painting, and Kate rubs off the paint there (desecrating a religious icon. Tsk tsk). Think of the pattern you see there as representing a clock, with the top of the cross at 12 o'clock. Then the numbers of significance are: 3, 4, 8, 9, and 12. Exit the chapel to the courtyard, then head south, and north into the library (if you were here earlier it was full of monks, but now it is empty). Library ------- Head east down the ramp, and at the east side of the circular room at the bottom, take the very long candle lighter from the holder on the wall. Relative to the top of the cross, light the candle at 12 o'clock first for reference (it's slightly to the left of the top of the cross), and then the candles at 3, 4, 8, and 9 o'clock... an aperture in a wall opens somewhere, emitting a bright light! Well, that somewhere is right here, but all the way at the top of the library. Examine the aperture with the light coming through it, and you get a magnificent view of Romansburg. Then Kate pulls back. Examine it once again, and use the Stained-Glass Mammoth on the aperture. It fits perfectly. The next puzzle is a bit of 'twiddleware', but rewarding nonetheless. The order in which you push the four phases of the moon surrounding the aperture control how much light comes through it, and only the right combination will cause a focussed image of the mammoth to appear on the far wall. You can play with it for a while if you like, but the correct order is: bottom, left, top, right. Then head over to the other side of the library and examine the circular plinth on the wall there. Touch the center of it, and a bookcase opens to reveal a hidden set of shelves. Take Brother Alexei's Book and the Youkol Relic from the middle shelf. Read the book. Fascinating. Especially the bit about scarlet brambles, which only grow on the graves of the peacefully deceased, having curative powers when mixed with walrus blubber or tallow then burnt... Exit the library and head back towards the lift. Examine the wheelbarrow in the scene before the lift, and take the Shears (they spelt it correctly this time :-) Then head for the graveyard, just to the west of the library. Go north and examine the grave there. It is Alexei's, and covered in scarlet bramble! Use the Shears to cut away the bramble, and then pick up the Herbs and Brambles. Now go back to the lift, and examine the apparatus to the west there. Take the Box of Matches. Put the Herbs and Brambles in the bucket. Open the cylindrical container underneath the funnel, click on what looks like a fly swatter to get a wick from it, and close the container. Pull the handle on the left to operate the bellows, which causes the liquid in the bucket to heat up. Use the tap, and some of the liquid flows into the container. Open the container and take the object there, to find that you have just made a Herbal Candle. Go to Hans now. Put the Youkol Relic on the table across from his bed. Then put the Herbal Candle into the Youkol Relic, and finally use the Box of Matches to light the Herbal Candle. Hans is cured. Talk to him, and Kate says she will find a way to get them out of the monastery. Go back to the lift, and there is the old patriarch. He has monks guarding the lift now, and is determined that Kate and Hans may not leave the monastery. In fact, he says that the only way Hans will leave is "in a box". How apropos. Now that the patriarch is no longer hanging around the chapel, you can go to the front room there (the one he always came out of when you approached). Take the Ornate Key, and use it to open the locked grating at the entrance to the chapel. Pull the rope there to ring the bell, calling all the monks to vespers... including the one who was digging a grave. Go to the graveyard, and examine the hole in the wall. Then use the Casket to position it in front of the hole. Go talk to Hans, and he agrees to leave with you. The patriarch and his heavies attempt to stop you, but Hans and Kate get away in the nick of time, tobogganing wildly down the hill in the Casket. Romansburg again ---------------- Once back on the train, talk to Hans and mention 'Departure'. He says there's still more to do before you can leave Romansburg. He has repaired the heart of Cirkos' mechanical horses, but is too weak to install it himself. He hands you the Mechanical Heart. Go back to the inn. After Cirkos finishes his unsuccessful youki training session, examine the mechanical horses. Use the Mechanical Heart on the central post. OK, it's twiddleware time again. A bit of experimentation will show that each quandrant on the Mechanical Heart controls one of the horses. The bottom left quadrant controls the first horse, and it goes clockwise from there. By hooking up the pipes in each quadrant, you can figure out which pipe makes a particular horse operate. Here's the proper connections: First horse: middle hole in bottom left quadrant Second horse: top hole in top left quadrant Third horse: top hole in top right quadrant Fourth horse: right-most hole in bottom right quadrant Once you make those connections correctly, each horse will buck slightly in turn when you press the central post. But, nothing else special happens. Well, we can soon fix that! Disconnect all the pipes, and touch the central post again. The Mechanical Heart rotates. Do this two more times, and the pointer at the top of the display should be at its right-most position (full speed, you surmise). Then connect all the pipes as above, touch the central post one more time, and... let the show begin. But just as Kate is really starting to enjoy the proceedings, the whole building shakes. She runs upstairs only to see the train departing without her. Go talk to your old friend Emeliov again. He mentions the Gangcar (that you have probably seen many times before). And now you finally know what that lever on the end of the platform is for. It couldn't possibly be used while a train was there. Pull the lever, and the Gangcar flips over to the topside. Now use it, and Kate thinks she is on to a winner... for all of 20 yards. Then it grinds to a halt. Hmm. Looks to me like that cage in the back of the Gangcar must be youki-powered. Go talk to Cirkos, and he says you are wlecome to the yokui... if you can find him, that is. Sure enough, the youki is in the Bourgoff brother's compound. You get a call from Oscar once you enter the compound. He gets interrupted by the Bourgoffs toward the end of the call, but has informed you that he is keeping the train speed to a minimum to give you a chance to catch up. Well, knowing that food is the main item on the agenda as far as youkis are concerned, the first order of business is to offer it the Fish Candy. Yo! Go all the way back up to the Gangcar, and the youki is following you. Once you get in, it's clear sailing until you catch up to the train. But Ivan Bourgoff spots you following, and goes too fast over a bridge, which collapses. You and the youki wind up on the wrong side of the tracks. Literally. Collapsed bridge ---------------- Head east from there, and keep on going (you have little choice). Along the way you notice a Youkol altar, but it is frozen solid. Continue onwards until the youki spots a beaver. Well, that's going to keep the beast occupied for a while. Backtrack a bit from there, and you can head north into a clearing. Take the Branches, and head back to the youkol altar. Use the Branches on the base of the altar, then use the Box of Matches. Take the Offering from the defrosted altar. Give it to the youki. In its excitement, the youki knocks over a tree that had been partially chewed through by the beaver, and you can now cross over the river. Once over the river, continue roughly northeast until you see a pile of logs. Then go northwest, and you come to a collapsed footbridge. East then, and enter the large log cabin. Log cabin --------- The youki promptly settles down. Examine the shelf above the fireplace, and take the Russian Doll, Hatchet, and Fisherman's Guide. Read the Fisherman's Guide, and note that we are looking for some orange salmon. They like green frogs, and they hang out in the shady part of the river. Head for the back door, but then southwest before you go outside. This place is abandoned, alright. Take the Fish Tank from the counter. Then go outside through the back door. Go onto the pier, and SAVE YOUR GAME. Use the fishing rod. Once Kate has the rod in hand, examine the tackle box at her feet. Select the green lure at the end of the first row (closest to a green frog). Then cast the rod into the area all the way to the right (the shadiest). Kate should catch an Orange Salmon. If you get a blue, green, or violet salmon instead, then read these instructions carefully and try again. Once you've got an Orange Salmon, try to exit the cabin through the front door, but a ferocious Siberian bear is blocking your way. Through the open window to the west of the door, use the Orange Salmon to distract the beast. The bear wanders off, satisfied. Exit the cabin, and head back to the collapsed footbridge. Use the Hatchet on the nearest post, and Kate pulls up a Rope and Plate. Use this on the large tree that is overhanging the chasm, and Kate makes it to the other side. The youki follows. As you begin the trek up the next path, the youki breaks away to chase after a harfang bird. Follow along the cliff face and... it's those wretched Bourgoff brothers, throwing boulders down at you. The youki runs off, and just as Igor is about to finish off Kate, a plane crashes into the top of the cliff. When you then try to climb up the cliff, Kate says that the first foothold is too high to reach. So use the Hatchet on the cliff face, and Kate starts climbing. Go as high as you can until you can go no further. Then you may have to climb down a few steps to find another foothold to the left or right. Eventually, you will get Kate to the top. From the top of the cliff, head south and then west. You see the plane wreck. Keep going north, and eventually you can see the pilot hanging from a tree in what's left of his parachute. He's apparently alive and well, but can't hear you because he still has his headset on. Go back and examine the cockpit of his plane. Hey, I thought he looked familiar. It's Boris Charov, the test pilot you sent into space in the first Syberia game! Anyway, turn on the cockpit power using the switch all the way to the top left. Looks like what we need to do is find a radio frequency we can receive on, so that we can talk to the pilot through his headset. By trying various settings of the available switches (bottom right panel, plus 'A' and 'B' at the top), we can get a solid '03' to light up in the left-hand side of the readout, and a '28' in the right-hand side. So remember the number '0328'. Then exit the cockpit, and head south towards the cliff, until you come to a place just before the top of the cliff where you can go south again. Whoa! Ivan and Igor almost run you over in their snowmobile as they are heading back to the train. Head back down the track made by the snowmobile, and examine the equipment shed next to the tower. Turn on power using the red button at the top right, then set the readout to '0328'. Use the button at the bottom of the microphone stand to talk to Boris, and he finally manages to extricate himself from the tree. Go back to the crash site and speak to Boris. It looks like you can use the co-pilot's cockpit ejector seat to get you back to the train, but only if you can find the correct coordinates. You can see a button on the right-hand side of the cockpit with a radar symbol on it, but Boris says the radar isn't functioning. Hmm. Go back to the equipment shed/radar tower. Turn on the radar display by pushing the button all the way to the bottom right on the screen. The way the dish is pointed now, you are not getting a blip. Climb the tower, then set the dish to point in the 'B' direction (you will get a blip in the 'C' direction too, but it's a smaller one, and I suspect it's the crashed plane rather than the train). Head back down and read the radar display. The blip is at: 80 degrees horizontal, 20 degrees vertical. Go back to the cockpit and use the buttons on the panel there to enter '80' on the left-hand side (horizontal), and '20' on the right-hand side (vertical). Don't worry. If you get it wrong, Boris will tell you. Once you get the coordinates right, Kate takes a wild ejection seat ride straight to the train! Collapsed bridge again ---------------------- Head to the northwest, towards the front of the train. You see an object sticking out of the snow. It's Oscar! Talk to him, and you learn that his clockworks are frozen. We need to find a way to loosen him up. Board the passenger car, and walk towords Hans' makeshift workshop. In the middle of the car you notice that the music box pedestal has been ripped from the floor, and there is a circular panel on the floor there. Continue into the next compartment, and pick up the Plan of the Train from the floor next to the bed. Then look at Hans' workshop area, and scan it until you locate the Oil Dispenser. Go use it on Oscar, and it frees him up again. He goes into the engine compartment, and says we're ready to depart as soon as Kate boards the passenger car. But, when Oscar tries to move the train forward, it won't budge due to the passenger car being stuck on the collapsed bridge. Go talk to Oscar again. He tells you that we must decouple the passenger car from the engine, and says to go find the decoupling panel and call him when you are in position. So go back to the circular panel and then call Oscar on your cell phone. He retracts the panel. Now examine the decoupling mechanism. You can look at the Plan of the Train, but this didn't seem to help much. Just move the sliders in the following order: top, bottom, middle. That does the trick. Kate jumps off the passenger car just before it falls into the ravine. The train departs and goes all the way to the end of the line... Mammoth monument ---------------- Head northeast, and then northeast again across the tracks. You bump into Igor, who is wandering around in a daze. Talk to him, and you find out that Hans has disappeared... again. Igor is afraid to go anywhere because of the "evil spirits". Leave him, and then find the snowmobile. You can try to go up the path, but it's too slippery. Examine the saddle bag at the rear of the snowmobile, and take the Gauze Blanket. Use it on the mouth of the harfang statue, and it stops the howling sound that Igor assumed to be spirits. Talk to Igor again, and he agrees to leave. After the snowmobile has left, you conveniently find a pair of ice shoes that were left behind. Use them to head up the path to the mammoth monument. As you step out onto the ice at the top of the path, that nasty piece of work Ivan sneaks up behind and starts waving a mammoth tusk in Kate's face. She backs up, and is cornered. You see a sled to Kate's right, but if you try to examine it, Ivan stops you. Keep talking to him until all the conversation is exhausted, then call Oscar on your cell phone. He reluctantly agrees to help, and does this by sounding the train's horn, which causes Ivan to turn around. Examine the sled now, and take the Ivory Knife. Use it to cut through the rope holding the sled. This accomplishes little more than making Ivan even angrier, and he comes after Kate again. She then backs up and drops through a hole in the ice! Youkol village -------------- Kate awakes from a strange dream and dresses. Exit the room, and talk to the youkol chief who is standing right outside the door. Hans has taken ill again. The chief says to follow the drums if you want to find him. Examine the basket outside the door, and take the Reindeer Antlers. Head east then, over a small bridge, and you see the large drums to the north. Go southeast here though, then examine the area to the very west of your screen, in front of where the hides are strung up. Take the Leather Strap. It is automatically combined with the Reindeer Antlers, and you wind up with a Slingshot in your inventory. Now go back from where you just came, but head up to the large drumsticks. You can't get by them, but if you look up on the top left of the screen, you see some large icicles. Use the Slingshot on the icicles (Kate picks up a rock from the ground to use), and one of them breaks off, jamming the water wheel. Nice one. You can now head north to the shaman's place. Shaman's place -------------- Hans is there alright, suspended from the ceiling by an intricate set of ropes. He is neither dead nor alive, but rather in some kind of dream state. Examine the masks to the east, and take the Youkol Mask. Then go to the west, and take the Prayer Wheel from the altar. Talk to the shaman. You learn that Hans is indeed in the dream world, and you must enter this world to bring him back. The key to entering the dream world is to find some "fruit of the spirit door", which grows on a very rare plant known as a "laughing tree". OK. We can do this. Go back to where you picked up the Leather Strap, then head to the southwest from there. Examine the apparatus between the large pots. Take the Cork Bung from the ground on the bottom left. Then take the Empty Flask from the middle of the apparatus. Use the Empty Flask on the holder at the top of the apparatus, then turn the crank on the right to lower the Empty Flask into the water. Turn the crank once more to retrieve the flask, and now you can take the Flask Full of Water. Go south from there, and examine the gate on the youki pen. Take the Fishbone from the ground. Then go east, north, north across a small bridge, then north twice more and you are at the entrance of a cave lit by torches. Take the northwest path into the cave. Then advance to the ice wall, and examine it. You see a lemming, and his tunnels in the ice. Embedded in the wall you see a plant with red berries. SAVE YOUR GAME. Easy to make a mistake here. First thing to do is put the Cork Bung in the right-most hole at ground level. Now the lemming only has one way back into his tunnels. Then exit from the wall, and locate the harfang perch. Hang the Prayer Wheel from it, then use it to call the harfang. Examine the ice wall again, and the lemming flees inside the tunnel to the left to escape the harfang (lemmings being its favourite prey). Now move the Cork Bung into the hole just below and to the left of the lemming. It moves forward, to the bottom of the vertical shaft. Then move the Cork Bung once more to the hole just behind the lemming, trapping it. Sorry, but it's now 'Be Cruel to Lemmings Week' (all for a good cause, you understand). Then use the Flask Full of Water on the hole at the top left, filling the vertical shaft with water. The lemming swims to the top of the shaft, then runs over and picks up some red berries. But it can go no further... unless we give it a ladder. So now drop the Fishbone into the hole at the top middle, and the lemming runs up it. On the way back down, it drops the berries, which conveniently roll onto the ground for us. Pick up the Dream Fruit. Exit the cave and head back to the shaman's place. Talk to her, and Kate says she has found the Dream Fruit. The shaman then takes Kate into the dream world... Dream world ----------- Players of the original Syberia will instantly recognise the following scenes, though they are redone in sepia tones. I will furnish complete directions though, in case you didn't play the first game, or perhaps your memory of scenes and events has faded somewhat. Go into the mammoth cave straight in front of you, and get the Mammoth Doll from the floor at the back of the cave. Then exit and follow the path all the way until you come to a paved courtyard. Speak to a young Anna Voralberg. The important thing to note here is that her father should be at home right now, until he goes to the factory. Then exit the courtyard to the west, head onto the street, and go up it until you can head through the door in the wall to the east. This is the Voralberg factory complex. Once on the factory grounds, head east at the central fountain, and enter the large house at the end of the path. Then head west into the sitting room and talk to Father Voralberg, the old swine. Looks like he's going to the factory shortly, but who knows when that will be? You can try heading up the stairs to see Hans next, but the door at the top is locked. Head back down and examine the clock in the hallway. The bottom part says it's 7 o'clock, but the clock face above reads 2:45. Go talk to young Anna Voralberg again, and you learn that her father always goes to work at 7:15. Obviously, we need to make the clock strike 7:15. It's the only way to get to Hans. The switch on the right-hand side of the clock moves the time in 30 minute increments. The one on the left in 15 minute increments. Using whatever combination of switches you like, get the time to 2:45 on the bottom of the clock (just before 'III' for those of us who are not Roman-numerically inclined). Now we are in synch with the face of the clock. Next, click on each of the figures next to the bell, and the counterweights are raised up. Now use the switches to advance the time to 7:15 (i.e., a little bit past 'VII'). Then touch the circular pendulum at the base of the clock. The hands on the clock face begin moving, albeit slowly. Then use one of the counterweights, and the hands on the face of the clock are now spinning frantically! Finally, touch the bell between the two figures, and the clock will stike 7:15. Father Voralberg departs for the factory, leaving a key behind on the sitting room table. Take the Attic Key, and head upstairs to use it on the locked door. Then move into the room, give Hans the Mammoth Doll and you engage in a surrealistic converstaion, with Hans switching between young and old forms. The key thing Hans mentions is about Oscar. He tells you that you must "open his heart". When the conversation finally ends, use the strange object on the desk to return from the dream world. Youkol village again -------------------- You can talk to the shaman again, but you will not glean much. Go back to the youki pen, then head north. Go up a ladder made of mammoth tusks, then head south (don't go up the stairs there). Keep following the tracks, and you will come upon two youkis that you can speak to. Hmm. You get the feeling that they are afraid of Oscar. If you head outside, you can try to pick up the huge hook just in front of the train, but Kate is unable to lift it without help. Sure enough, you can head back inside and ask for 'Help', but the youkols will not help you because of "nanook metal. Tooktoot naa". Right. Go talk to Oscar. When the conversation finally comes around to 'Youkol Mask', Oscar reluctantly agrees to wear it. When you talk to the youkols again, mentioning 'Oscar', then 'Help', the youkols head outside and hook the cable up to the train. Head back to the train, examine the hook, and then use the yoke there to take up the cable slack. Head back into the tunnel, up the stairs to the west, then southeast, and use the lever on the right to pull the train into the tunnel. Go talk to Oscar (I trust you can find your way to the train by now), and he heads off back to the shaman's place... Back at the shaman's place, Oscar is now lying on the bed in the place of Hans. Start pushing the dreamcatcher by the shaman's front door. Eventually, Anna will mention "7:15 exactly". Right. Push the buttons at 7 o'clock and then 3 o'clock on Oscar's heart. It opens up a bit. Then push the buttons at 12, 3, 6, and 9. A strange but wonderful thing happens. Oscar 'opens up' to accept the body of Hans! Take the Voralberg Key from the heart of the combined Oscar/Hans automaton. Talk to the shaman, and she says Kate must "prepare the voyage now. Tooktoot". OK... so head back to the train. Now... the next bit is a really, really good example of bad puzzle design. You have this Voralberg Key, and you know you have to use it to activate the controls of the train, but can you find the keyhole for the the key? Noooohhhh! Well, it's that miniscule, slightly different coloured spot between the two gauges at the center of the screen. Thank you very much Mr. Sokal for wasting two precious hours of my life spent wandering all over the youkol village trying completely useless things! But I eventually got over it... anyway, after activating the controls, use the lever at the top right, and then the one at the top left. A snake-like automaton extends towards the back of the train. Then use the right-most switch (next to the centre wheel). The snake gets some coal, and then retracts. Next, hit the top right lever and then the top left lever again. The snake goes beneath the train. Then hit the switch just to the right of the centre wheel, and the snake takes on water. Turn the largish wheel all the way at the left of the screen, and you can hear/see the fire being stoked up. Throw the switch all the way to the left. A device extends from the nose of the train. Finally, use the small wheel above the switch you just threw... and the ice surrounding the mammoth ark is melted. Just before you board the ark, talk to the youkol chief standing by the gangway. He agrees to open the doors once you are ready to leave. Then board the ark, and talk to the Hans/Oscar thingy. Well, let's just call him Hans from now on to avoid confusion. He bids you to get the youki before you can depart. So head back to the youki pen, examine the gate, and you can open it now. The youki bolts back to the ark. Board it once again, and you set sail. Fantastic cut scene! Ice floe -------- The ark eventually comes to a halt. You see a lot of penguins here. Have we finally arrived at the legendary island of Syberia? Talk to Hans at the rear of the ark and... hmm. No. We've just run aground on an ice floe. Leave the ark and head northeast, then north. Pick up the Narwhal Tusk. Head south, and then continue going west. When you come to the ark's anchor, use the Narwhal Tusk to free it from the ice, and it falls back into the water. Head west, then try to go to the southwest but... oh no! Kate turns around to see that that creep Ivan has got aboard the ark, and he's retracted the lift so you can't get back on board that way. Head southwest, then south till you can go no further. There's a crowd of penguins blocking the way to the east. Go northwest then, and you see a nest of penguin eggs. Use the Russian Doll (knew you'd eventually find a use for this, didn't you?) on the nest, and Kate calls the penguins over to have a look at their new egg. Then you can access the end of the ice floe where the penguins were standing. Oops. A crack opens up behind Kate. But that's a good thing in this instance. Use the Narwhal Tusk on the crack, Kate drifts over to the ark, and is able to climb into the hold. Move the barrel, and go through the door. Use the ladder next to Hans to enter the anchor room. Take the Ivory Hook from the floor. Then go back to the hold, and examine the mast where it goes through the deck. Kate climbs onto the barrel for a closer look. Use the Ivory Hook on the other ivory piece, then use the rope to attach it to the Ivory Hook. Then back out, pull the lever next to the barrel, and watch the show. As the sail flies up, the boom smacks into an unsuspecting Ivan and flings him off the boat. The ark sets sail, leaving Ivan to the penguins. Not a pretty sight. Syberia ------- You arrive at an almost tropical-looking place, and Hans wanders off the ark. Surely this must be the legendary island of Syberia! Leave the boat and head to the east. Go up a ladder, and talk to the guard that was watching you on the way in and... uh oh! The guard is long dead. Take the Youkol Medallion from the corpse. Go back towards the boat, and go west. You go down some stairs. Then examine the chest at the south end of the pier there, and pick up the three Stone Plates. Head north from there, and just as you enter the archway of tusks, examine the grass to the right. You find a Syberia Flower, and a fourth Stone Plate. Keep heading north, and you come to an intricate ivory door. Hans is sitting there on a bench. Use the lever on the ground (difficult to see. It's in the middle of the screen) to lower the cage. Hmm. From my limited knowledge, this looks just the job for a youki! Go back to the hold of the boat and use the Syberia Flower on the hibernating youki to bring him out of it. Before you head back to the ivory gate, do yourself a favour. Go through the door into the next room, and study the Drawings on Canvas on either side of the mammoth spine at the back wall. In particular, take note of the pattern to the right of the youkol riding a mammoth. Then return to the ivory gate (the youki follows you, presumably in the hope that you will give it some food). As you approach the gate, the youki heads into the cage and runs like mad till the door raises... then promptly falls asleep again. Follow Hans through the gate. Mammoth grounds Head up the stairs, and across the walkway. At the end of the walkway is a strange device. Examine the ground under the device and pick up a fifth Stone Plate. Now... the patterns on the plates correspond to those on the inner circle of the Youkol Medallion, but that's way overkill. To solve this puzzle, you can instead just go by the shape of the pieces alone. In case you get stuck, here is where the pieces fit into the stone circle: First Stone Plate from inventory - in southwest part of circle Second - east Third - northwest Fourth - north Fifth - southeast Then when you turn the wheel on the device, an Ivory Key pops out of the ground and you can take it. Notice the piece that the sand pours out of as the Ivory Key raises up. Also notice that when you take the Ivory key, this piece moves! Talk to Hans next. He wants you to use "flutes" to call the mammoths. Go down the steps to the west and examine the panel on the 'mammoth phone' that is just to the left of the wheel. Use the Ivory Key on the keyhole at the bottom, and a set of glyphs is revealed. Now you have to point the mammoth phone in the right direction. To do this, put the Ivory Key in the hole that corresponds to the glyph on the outer circle of the Youkol Medallion (looks like a bar above a backwards 9) that is beneath the glyph on the inner circle that moved when you took the Ivory Key. In other words, put the Ivory Key in the second hole from the left on the bottom row. Now you can turn the wheel, and the mammoth phone is presumably pointing in the right direction. Finally, examine the large 'flute' on the left-hand side of the mammoth phone. Remember the Drawings on Canvas from the ark? Accordingly, you need to set the top row of the flute to: open, partially open, open. Set the bottom row to: partially open, closed, open. Then hit one of the horizontal levers and... a magical thing happens! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright Steve Metzler ([email protected]) - May, 2004. All rights reserved. This work may be published anywhere, on any medium, provided: 1. It is not altered in any way, including this copyright notice. 2. No fee is charged for access to this work.


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London's Spitalfields area is most notorious for its old market but since the Fall of 2006 it has also been drawing attention for its peculiar new exhibition space--the first of its kind in the UK--the Kinetica Museum. Its mission is to 'actively encourage the convergence of art and technology, providing an exhibition space in central London where the most important examples of kinetic, technological, and electronic art, both past and present, can be properly stored and displayed.' Currently on view, 'Soundwaves' exemplifies the Kinetica Museum's mission. A collaboration with the Cybersonica festival, this exhibition presents fifteen pioneering UK and European artists that have developed projects that 'explore, warp, collect, and manipulate sound.' According to the organizers, some of the highlights of the show are: 'An orchestra of household objects by Pierre Bastien; interactive sound and shadow circuit bending sculptures by Peter Vogel; kinetic electro-acoustic sculptures by Max Eastley; Rob Mullender's photophonic sound synthesizer; Martin Riches robotic and kinetic sound machines; a phonetic voice theremin by Michael Markett; receiver and transmitting dialogue devices by Julie Freeman; an interactive percussive installation by Andy Huntingdon; and a new piece by soundtoys.net artist Arcangel Constantini.' The May 18 opening event included a series of performances by some of the featured artists and brought together musical and visual traditions alongside new technologies to create experimental work, demonstrating that sound is one of the most challenging yet promising media for contemporary artistic practices. - Miguel Amado
ARTIST in RESIDENCE [AiR] 2007
Residency Period: 3 months
Dates from September 2007
Location Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Netherlands Media Art Institute is pleased to annouce an open call for the fall 2007 round of its Artist in Residence (AiR) program. The AiR programme at the Netherlands Media Art Institute aims to support the exploration and development of new work in digital / interactive / network media and technology based arts practice. The residency provides time and resources to artists in a supportive environment to facilitate the creation of new work that is produced from an open source perspective. We encourage a cross disciplinary and experimental approach. This is a practice based residency designed to enable the development and completion of a new work.
Our focus for this open call is on open source interactive installation art, in which the following occurs:
interaction between tools and/or software
interaction between tools and artwork
* interaction between audience and artwork
Originally posted on networked_performance by Rhizome
Interview with Sarah Cook
Independent new media curator, researcher, co-founder and co-editor of CRUMB (the Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss), an online resource for curators, producers, commisioners and exhibitors of new media art.
Originally posted on we make money not art by Rhizome
Imaging Place
Imaging Place, is a place-based, virtual reality art project. Since September of 2006 the Imaging Place is being implementing in Second Life. It takes the form of a user navigated, interactive computer program that combines panoramic photography, digital video, and three-dimensional technologies to investigate and document situations where the forces of globalization are impacting the lives of individuals in local communities. The goal of the project is to develop the technologies, the methodology and the content for truly immersive and navigable narrative, based in real places. Imaging Place is therefore experienced as a process of navigation and excavation, allowing the user to uncover many layers of history and meaning. Imaging Place documents sites of cultural significance that for political, social, economic, or environmental reasons are contested, undergoing substantial changes, or are at risk of destruction. This includes historic sites as well as sites of living culture that are being displaced by globalization. The project also seeks to expand the notion of documentary by exploring how place is internalized, mapping place as a state of mind.
Originally posted on MOON RIVER by Rhizome
ScatterProjects - If Elsewhere
Preview 14.6.07
The Media Centre
7 Northumberland Street
0870 990 5007
Mon-Fri 10am-5pm
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In the "old days", before the Internet, the term 'local' was used to define our surrounding physical environment. We defined our location with an X on the map, and our 'locale' consisted of what was within our sight line, or was 'a stones throw away'. Such terms have since been adopted for use in our online environment, aimed at keeping terms familiar and easy to use, but subsequently generating a duality of meaning, one that blurs the boundaries of the real and the virtual.
If Elsewhere draws from these shared terms and looks at the concept of the Glocal - the global local. Glocality, Glocalisation, all whisper of something close, perhaps an act of making something personal, or a redefininition of our understanding of the near and the far. Our world has physically shrunk; cheap air travel and our networked population mean that the global has become local in every sense. If Elsewhere is interested in how people take control or represent themselves in this Glocality, and as a body of work considers the nuances of the immense and the intimate, revealing different portrayals of this fascinating blend of ephemerality and permanence, public and private.
If Elsewhere is the culmination of a 6-month collaborative project consisting of an 8 person curatorial working group. This includes: Richard Carter, Joanna Johnston, Omar Johnson, Maura Skillen and Joe Turner, final year BA Multimedia students from The University of Huddersfield, UK. It has been supported by Jen Southern, Artist and Lecturer at The University of Huddersfield ...
Originally posted on Rhizome.org Raw by Karen Gaskill
CALL FOR CURATORIAL PROPOSALS - LabforCulture.org
CALL FOR CURATORIAL PROPOSALS - LabforCulture.org
Deadline July 1, 2007
LabforCulture.org is the essential online tool for everyone involved in arts and culture who creates, collaborates, shares and produces across borders in Europe. This interactive web platform was launched in 2006 to encourage dialogue, networking and collaboration across physical, cultural and imaginative borders across 48 countries in the broader Europe. Initiated by the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) and jointly developed and supported by many of Europe's leading cultural organisations, LabforCulture offers a wealth of essential information, debate and research - including all the latest news, vital funding tips, blogs and a vast searchable database of cultural organisations operating from Rome to Reykjavík.
LabforCulture.org will celebrate its first anniversary in the summer of 2007 and in this context we are pleased to announce a call for an experienced media art curator or curatorial collaboration to conceptualise and manage an online presentation of specially commissioned artworks, for presentation in early 2008.
For more information, check LabforCulture.org webiste or contact Angela Plohman, Content Development, LabforCulture at email@example.com
Originally posted on Rhizome.org Raw by Marieke Istha
Douglas Davis
Douglas Davis is primary known for his pioneering video works from the late 60's through to the 80's which entailed live, collaborative performances combining newly invented video equipment and satellite broadcasts. The following is an overview of some of Douglas Davis art work.
The Last Nine Minutes (video extract above) was a live performance for international satellite telecast created for Documenta 6.
Originally posted on Network Research by Rhizome
New Interfaces in New York
There is no doubt that the New York region is currently experiencing a heyday, of sorts, for new media. Centered in New York and reaching its tentacles out into Brooklyn, Queens, and many parts of New Jersey, the 'scene' on the east coast is thriving, and diverse, as evidenced by the ambitious lineup at this year's New York Electronic Arts Festival (NYEAF), which is produced by Harvestworks, the NYU Music Technology Program, and LEMUR, among other partners. At the heart of this year's festival (which features a number of exhibitions, conferences, screenings, and performances) is NIME, the 7th annual New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference. Previously known by the slightly less catchy title, 'Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems,' NIME presents the most interesting, innovative, and risk-taking contemporary musicians, composers, performers, sound artists, and music theorists working today, all of whom include technology in their practice. This year's NIME places particular emphasis on robotics and promises to deliver 'feats of musical athleticism beyond the capacity of even the most amazing human performer.' NIME and the entire NYEAF run through June 10. - James Petrie
wer all connekted, k?
Net art from Nasty Nets member Petra Cortright.
Originally posted on nasty nets by Rhizome
urban typologies image mosaic
a collection of image mosaics that visually compare peculiar mundane objects in urban space, ranging from office buildings, over fitness equipment devices to detailed car tail lights.
"The typological array's inherent ability to depict prevalence and repetition make it the perfect technique for examining the excess, redundancy, and meaningless freedom of our current age of consumption. Part of my intent with this work is to answer the question implied by the title of Robert Adams's book What We Bought: If there is some kind of big sellout occuring, what are we getting in the deal?
The typological form achieves an uncanny synergy and resonance with this subject matter because it mimics the mental images I suspect many of us form as a way of ordering the chaos of abundance that surrounds us. We can't help but form in our heads lists, groups and categories based on product, brand, price point, style, market segment, country of origin, etc.
To see one of these turned into a group of images lined up together can be unnerving, though. In print, they confront us in a way never possible when they're just in our heads. We are presented with order, and while it is often an absurd, seemingly pointless order, it is one that we recognize immediately."
[links: markluthringer.com|via urbancom.blogspot.com]
see also daily photo portraits & daily photo mosaic.
Originally posted on information aesthetics by Rhizome


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He promised accountability and swift action, but he's not firing Veteran Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki – yet.
President Barack Obama sought to tamp down increasing calls for firm action on a growing controversy involving fraudulent record-keeping that covered up excessive and sometimes deadly waiting times for veterans at some VA facilities.
In a statement to reporters after meeting with Shinseki, Obama asked for more time to review what is going on, declaring that any proven misconduct will face punishment.
"If these allegations prove to be true, it is dishonorable, it is disgraceful, and I will not tolerate it, period," he said in his first public comments in weeks on the issue first reported by CNN last month.
Noting the public wants a "swift reckoning" on the VA issue, Obama instead defended the record of his administration and Shinseki — a retired Army general who has served as Veteran Affairs secretary throughout Obama's presidency.
Shinseki is committed to solving the department's problems, the President said, adding it has been made clear to him that there will be accountability throughout the VA system.
CNN reported last month that in Phoenix, the department used fraudulent record-keeping — including secret lists — that covered up excessive waiting periods for veterans, with some dying in the process. White House spokesman Jay Carney stepped around questions Tuesday about when Obama learned of the depth of the Department of Veterans Affairs problems.
In a new development on Wednesday, CNN learned that the Phoenix VA Director Sharon Helman — who was placed on administrative leave because of the reported problems — received a bonus of $8,495 in April, which was in addition to the 2013 bonus she received, according to the House Committee on Veteran's Affairs.
Meanwhile, the number of VA facilities under investigation has expanded to 26, the agency's Office of Inspector General said Tuesday. Last week, the inspector general told a Senate committee that 10 facilities were being investigated.
Obama's deputy chief of staff, Rob Nabors, will head to Phoenix on Wednesday night to interview the VA office's interim director and visit the facility. Nabors is aiding Shinseki with a review of the allegations, and Obama said he expects a report from them next week.
In addition, Nabors is conducting a broader review of overall VA health care administration, with a deadline to report back to Obama in a month, the President said.
For six months, CNN has been reporting on delays in medical appointments for veterans across the country, with some dying or suffering harm while waiting for appointments and care. The most disturbing and striking problems emerged in Arizona last month, with sources revealing to CNN details of a secret waiting list. According to the sources, at least 40 American veterans died in Phoenix while waiting for care at the VA there.
An internal VA memo from 2010, first disclosed at a congressional hearing last week, showed officials warned of "inappropriate scheduling practices" to cover up excessive waits for veterans four years ago.
The memo by William Schoenhard, who was a VA deputy undersecretary, referred to a growing practice of "gaming strategies" that he said would not be tolerated. However, the CNN investigation shows such practices have continued.
One of CNN's sources, Dr. Samuel Foote, a retired VA hospital physician, said Wednesday that VA managers worried about being able to report they were meeting deadlines for providing care to veterans, rather than getting accurate information on what was happening.
If the numbers provided to superiors looked good, then the VA looked good, Foote explained, adding, "There's really no incentive for the upper management to get accurate numbers."
He told CNN: "I think the VA needs to get out of its delay and deny mode and start admitting that there really is a problem, and that's generally the first step in solving a problem is admitting you have one."
In response to CNN's reporting, the VA has acknowledged 23 deaths across the country due to excessive waits by veterans for care, and the VA inspector general launched an independent investigation of the Phoenix allegations and other VA problems in addition to the internal review by Shinseki and Nabors.
At a Senate hearing last week, the inspector general said his investigation so far found a possible 17 deaths of veterans waiting for care in Phoenix but added there was no evidence that the excessive waiting caused the deaths.
Internal memo
On Monday, Carney acknowledged the White House learned of the situation at the Phoenix VA from CNN reports in April.
Asked Tuesday about the Schoenhard memo, Carney refused to answer and instead referred reporters to the VA because it was an internal VA document.
At the same time, Carney said Obama had long been aware of problems at the VA and sought to address them since taking office, adding, "This is not a new issue to the President."
In 2007, Obama, then a senator from Illinois, vowed to tackle the issue of insufficient care for veterans at a campaign event during his first run for the presidency.
"When a veteran is denied care, we are all dishonored," Obama said in the August 2007 speech, adding: "It's not enough to lay a wreath on Memorial Day, or to pay tribute to our veterans in speeches."
So far, the President has resisted calls by Republicans to fire Shinseki.
Whistleblowers from other VA hospitals across the country have stepped forward to describe similar schemes by officials to hide the extended waits.
Florida problems
Meanwhile, an audit team sent to the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center in Gainesville, Florida, discovered a list of patients needing follow-up appointments that was kept on paper instead of in the VA's electronic computer system.
As a result, three members of the Gainesville VA's supervisory staff have been placed on paid leave, pending the outcome of the inspector general's investigation, VA Sunshine Healthcare Network spokeswoman Mary Kay Hollingsworth said this week.
The secret waiting list in Phoenix was part of an elaborate scheme designed by VA managers there who were trying to hide that 1,400 to 1,600 sick veterans were forced to wait months to see a doctor, according to a recently retired top VA doctor and several high-level sources who spoke exclusively to CNN.
Phoenix VA officials denied any knowledge of a secret list, and said they never ordered any staff to hide waiting times. They acknowledged some veterans may have died waiting for care there, but they said they did not have knowledge about why those veterans might have died.
CNN has tried repeatedly to interview Shinseki, but the requests have been denied.
VA response 'unacceptable'
On Tuesday, House Veterans' Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller complained of a "very weak" and "unacceptable" response by the VA to a subpoena from his panel over the alleged health care delays.
The Florida Republican told CNN that if the VA doesn't provide more details, the committee could move to hold the embattled agency in contempt.
The top Democrat on the House panel, Rep. Michael Michaud of Maine, told reporters that both sides were frustrated with the response so far.
"We do not want to give them more time if they don't need that time — if this is in fact is a delay," Michaud said. "There has been a credibility problem within the VA and that's one of the reason why we're concerned."
The VA said in a statement that it had begun to turn over documents and would continue to do so on a rolling basis.


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about eight years ago
J.J Lyonz - News Director
The tug-of-war between Texas Gov. Rick Perry and state universities is still going strong heading into the 2013 legislative session with new skirmishes over money looming. After lawmakers cut nearly $1 billion in higher education spending from institutions and financial aid for students, schools want that money back. Perry wants schools to lock in four-year tuition rates, offer cheaper degrees and graduate more students quicker. And he wants schools to earn some of the funding they get by tying at least 10 percent of the money to how many students graduate. University leaders hope to convince the Legislature that pumping money back into higher education helps the state by producing a better-educated workforce and research that fuels economic development.


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Lift is an intimate collection of ski-in, ski out residences adjacent to the Sunrise chairlift and in the heart of the expanded pedestrian neighborhood of new shops, restaurants, and gathering places in Canyons Village. Featuring a one-of-a-kind pool deck overlooking the Retreat ski-home trail, these mountain modern homes offer generous floor plans with open-concept design, large contemporary windows, and fireplace feature walls. An elevated residential experience, Lift is offered fully furnished and designed to make moving-in seamless and hassle free. Reverse engineered for experience first arriving off mountain, youll come home to a world of comfort. Amenities include an expansive pool deck , two hot tubs, firepit, cabanas, grilling area, a club room with a large TVs, pool table, kid and teens room, a fitness center with steam room, and owner gear lockers right off the ski trail. With its modern design character and innovative amenities, Lift is an amazing place to call home.
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We've written before about our straight-up admiration for Green Thing's focus on using creativity to switch people away from thinking of green living as something we ought to do, to something we want to do.
This time around, they've applied their talents to t-shirts.
As the blurb says: "Saved is a new sustainable product and anti-waste campaign that takes unwanted or unloved T-shirts, washes them, hand-stitches 'Saved' lettering onto them, adds a Saved story (saved from bad taste, saved from disrepair, saved from neglect) and in doing so makes each T-shirt a bit more fashionable and a lot more desirable."
Aside from the obligatory celebrity endorsement (stand up Marina and the Diamonds, Imogen Heap, VV Brown, Professor Green and Zandra Rhodes, who've all donated t-shirts) the thing we particularly like is the innovation and design Green Thing used at every stage of the Saved cycle. Including a "pay it forward"-style approach to delivery – already recycled, the packaging containing your t-shirt can be reused with a freepost label to send back one of your own old t-shirts to be Saved for somebody else.
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The Meeting of the Lord at Orasac
The feast day of the Meeting of the Lord – Statehood Day of the Republic of Serbia also this year was solemnly celebrated аt historic Orasac.
The celebration of this great feast day of the Church of Christ began with the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy celebrated by Bishop Jovan of Sumadia with the concelebration of episcopal deans of Orasac and Topola and its clergy. Attending the Holy Liturgy there were Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Aleksandar Karadjordjevic and Princess Katherine, Mr. Velimir Ilic, Minister of Construction and Urbanism, Mr. Bojan Radovic, president of the Municipality of Mladenovac, as well as other personalities.
Following the Holy Liturgy the Bishop cut the slava cake and then he held a memorial service for repose of the souls of all those who gave their lives for the freedom of the Serbian people.
After the memorial service, wreaths were laid at the memorial by the Royal family and local politicians. Professor Dr. Oliver Antic laid a wreath on behalf of Mr Tomislav Nikolic, the President of the Republic of Serbia.


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The City now hopes to use these improvements and amenities to encourage private investment in the neighborhood. These private investments, in the form of new residential and commercial development, will:
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Marianne Tetlow was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 12 and knows first-hand the ongoing emotional struggles and challenges a person with diabetes faces. As a volunteer with the American Diabetes Association, Tetlow is co-chair of the Youth Ambassador and Youth Leadership Council, hosted the Youth Zone at the organization's Diabetes Health Fair, and offers mentoring services to families and adults dealing with diabetes. She has also encouraged young people with Type 1, insulin-dependent diabetes to share their stories and help educate the public about living with diabetes.
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Spring Classics #1 Ride Report: Milwaukee-Belgium-MilwaukeePosted on
What does it say that more than 650 people read the post about the ride from Milwaukee to Belgium and back, but only 5 people decided to do the ride? Jim, Ben, Russell, Gary and yours truly were the only takers for the inaugural start to the Over the Bars Spring Classic series. Perhaps once people see how much fun the five of us had riding to Belgium, more will tag along on the second in Spring Classics series: Milwaukee-Paris-Milwaukee.
Saturday morning at 7:45 I met Jim, Russell and Ben for a pre-ride meeting at Cranky Al's Bakery at 69th and North Avenue in Wauwatosa. As a card-carrying member of the pay-day bakery club at work, I am no stranger to donuts. I fancy myself a bit of a crueller connoisseur and I think Cranky's makes the best in the metro area. After fueling up on tasty calorie dense carbs and discussing strategies, the four of us departed promptly at 8am.
The weather was perfectly Belgian, cold, grey and windy. No rain, but you can't have everything I guess. Our route was east on North Ave. all the way to Newhall. Most of North Avenue has been recently repaved with bike lanes. It was a nice route early on a Saturday morning. We got a few thumbs up and "good mornings" from pedestrians we passed in the central city. I avoid riding on North late at night because there are so many drunk drivers, but during the day it is a nice direct route to the East Side.
We bombed Newhall north past Park Street bridge, down the dirt trail connection to the Oak Leaf Trail near the Urban Ecology Center. This would not be the last of our cyclocross exercises for the day. We picked up Gary in Estabrook Park just above the dam. The five of us continued north on the Oak Leaf trail, then to Range Line, the aptly named River Road and onto the Ozaukee Interurban Trail at Mequon Road. With about 30 miles in and another 30 to get back, Jim had to peel off and head back to Milwaukee on his own due to other commitments. I have not heard back from him, but I assume he is not lost somewhere in the northern suburbs.
The trail was in great shape until we got just south of Belgium where we hit some snow. If you carried enough speed and unweighted your bike, you could ride through most of it. But once we hit Lake, the trail ahead of us was more snow than it was asphalt, so we jumped over to County Highway KW for the last couple miles into Belgium.
Both Curly's and Chrissy's were closed, so we stopped at a new coffee shop for Minestrone soup and Jarritos sodas. Italian soup and Mexican soda were not quite the frites and beer we had in mind, but they were probably a wiser choice for the 50 mile ride home into a cold headwind. Young Ben and Gary were still feeling spry, so they did most of the pulling on the way back. Russell and I took a few turns at the front, but did not argue when Gary or Ben jumped. Who are we to deny someone suffering if they want it?
Russell had a couple flats on the ride, otherwise we did not have any real trouble. We rode at a conversational pace the whole time and stopped for cokes, cheese and chocolate covered expresso beans when the opportunity presented itself. As promised, not a pedal was turned in anger. I completed my day with 97 miles in a bit under 6 hours riding time. Ben is just finishing high school at Tosa East and had never done a century before, so he and Russell road a bit extra after they left my house. Ben was able to check off a great milestone in his personal cycling record book at an age when I was just riding across town to see my friends. You can ride in my peloton any time Ben!
More information to come soon about the OTB Spring Classic #2: Milwaukee-Paris-Milwaukee. Stay tuned here and on the ride page on the menu bar above for the date and details.


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Many foreign persons moving to the United States are surprised to find out that the U.S. imposes an excise tax on gifts and decedent's estates. Many countries in the world have no gift or estate tax. The tax on the gift or estate can be as high as 40%. Therefore, ignorance of the U.S. gift and estate tax rules can be detrimental to a foreign person's financial health. As one IRS agent stated, "I am amazed that foreign persons make investments or move to the United States without consulting with a tax advisor."
Often, upon arrival in the 'Land of Opportunity,' the first thing a foreign person will do is purchase a residence. Deciding how to take title to the newly acquired residence is extremely important from a gift and estate tax standpoint. With a married couple, the tendency will usually be to take title to the residence as joint owners. Generally, this means that the husband and wife both own an undivided 50% interest in the home. This can raise gift tax issues because if the source of funds used to purchase the home came solely from one spouse, a taxable gift may occur. Furthermore, because in other cultures it is not uncommon to frequently change title among owners, foreign persons may add or change title to siblings or children without realizing such changes are taxable gifts in the U.S.
In a recent situation, a foreign couple invested in U.S. real estate because their child was moving to the U.S. to attend college and would perhaps remain in the U.S. after the child's collegiate studies concluded. The real estate was titled as joint tenants with the parents and child. The father passed away unexpectedly, and, because the property was titled as joint tenants, the entire value of the property was presumed to be included in the father's U.S. gross estate even though he only held a third of the interest.
What does this mean from a tax perspective? The mother and child had to prove that they contributed their own funds to the purchase of the residence as to not potentially be subject to an estate tax. In addition, since the child held one-third ownership of the residence, if the parents provided the funds for the purchase price, a taxable gift was likely made to the child upon the purchase of the home.
When consulting with a U.S. tax advisor about estate planning, a foreign person, regardless of how long he or she has lived in the U.S., must clearly explain they are not a U.S. citizen. Why is this critical? For U.S. citizens and foreign persons domiciled in the U.S., the exemption amount before the gift or estate tax will apply is $5.25 million. However, a foreign person who is not domiciled in the U.S. has only a $60,000 exemption for estate tax and no exemption for gift tax. Knowing whether you are considered a non-U.S. citizen or a foreign person domiciled in the U.S. comes down to this: a person is domiciled in the U.S. if they are physically present in the U.S. with the intent to remain in the U.S. indefinitely.
Because of these lower exemption amounts, the IRS may argue that a foreign person is not domiciled in the U.S. so the U.S. can collect more taxes on the U.S. assets.
Another trap for non-citizens in the U.S. is that there is normally no gift or estate tax for assets transferred from one spouse to another. However, this exception, called the unlimited marital deduction, does not apply to non-U.S. citizens unless a special U.S. trust called a qualified domestic trust (often referred to as a "QDOT") has been established. The QDOT can only be used to defer the estate tax until the death of the surviving spouse. It cannot be used for deferral of gift tax.
For good reasons, U.S. trust and estate attorneys prefer to use trusts, such as a QDOT, for clients' life time planning and also at death. Many countries in the world, however, do not recognize trusts.
Therefore, it is important to take a holistic approach to your estate planning. There are three key tenets to follow if you are a foreign person with assets in the U.S. and other countries. First, make sure you are asking the right questions; second, work with an informed and knowledgeable tax professional; and third, collaborate with those other countries to coordinate a worldwide plan.
Material discussed is meant to provide general information and should not be acted on without professional advice tailored to your firm's individual needs.


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Despite its small size, Costa Rica is home to nearly half a million species, making it one of the world's most biodiverse countries. It has a richly varied landscape of mountains, volcanoes, tropical forests and idyllic black and white sanded beaches. The country is known for its progressive environmental policies and is the country with the highest proportion of protected areas in the world. But we won't only take you to see its array of multicoloured wildlife – we'll introduce you to its polite, family-orientated, peace-loving people too.


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Landry's Seafood has brought the great taste of the Gulf Coast to one of the nation's premier entertainment destinations.
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Located at the Hilton Branson Convention Center Hotel. Level 2 Steakhouse is the prime location in Branson for outstanding steaks.
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"The Paddlewheel" is conveniently located on the water at the Branson Landing.
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Choose "Cantina Laredo" at the beautiful Branson Landing for authentic Mexican cuisine in a sophisticated atmosphere.
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"Dobyn's Dining Room" at College of the Ozarks brings you fine dining in Branson with a difference...every aspect of your dining experience involves students!
1 Opportunity Avenue
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Devil's Pool Restaurant
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"Devil's Pool Restaurant," located at one of the Branson area's most beautiful resorts, Big Cedar Lodge, combines casual dining with rustic elegance and southern, homestyle fare.
612 Devil's Pool Road
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"Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon" in Branson will certainly satisfy any craving for a tasty, juicy, tender steak!
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I have to warn you...I don't like this quilt! I know it looks really nice in that picture, but when you're looking at it in person it's not so great! I was surprised when I saw the picture, because it looks like the one I copied (except that one was square). My husband and I decided that the brown needs to be a print and not a solid. That might help it not look so plain.
The other thing I don't care for is the quilting. It is my first try at dwirling. Maybe I need to keep practicing! I love the method, just not my pattern! It was fun to free motion somthing besides meander. Although meander probably would have looked better for a man's quilt!
Close up shows the quilting. I used a circle template on the foot of my longarm to keep the distance between the lines closer to 1 inch.


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